NSA Director Keith Alexander warns of "Anonymous" causing US Blackouts in 2012

[Satyagraha]

U.S. government concerned about Anonymous causing blackouts
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/21/idUS414489442720120221

Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:25pm EST
By Meghan Kelly at VentureBeat

National Security Agency director General Keith Alexander believes Anonymous could have the power to take town the United States’ electrical grid this year.

The Wall Street Journal’s sources say the director admitted his concern over the hacktivist group at the White House, though he has made no public statement regarding this group in particular. But cyber security is a huge issue for the government as Anonymous continues to “attack for good,” with the expectation of exposing corruption. Anonymous routinely attacks the government on what it calls “F**k FBI Friday,” and recently hacked into a phone call between the FBI and Scotland Yard, where the two agencies were discussing the group itself.

The NSA declined to comment in an e-mail to VentureBeat.

Recently Anonymous’ attacks have seemed to be fairly surface value. Denial of service attacks, which simply attempt to access a website so many times that it overloads, have been behind some of its most high-profile “take-downs” in the last few months. This includes the Department of Justice shortly after the FBI shut down file-sharing company MegaUpload. A similar strategy is currently proposed by the group to shut down the 13 servers that run the Internet.

But the group certainly isn’t limited to DDoS knowledge, and has performed much more intricate attacks in the past. These include the hack on security firm Stratfor where credit card information was compromised. E-mails regarding the Haditha Massacre were leaked from the law firm representing the Marine accused of spearheading the civilian-casualty-riddled mission. Not to mention the slew of website defaces that have hit law enforcement agencies across the country.

An attack on the electrical grid, however, would more likely be blamed on a country with which the U.S. has tensions. China has already been caught hacking into U.S. Department of Defense key cards to gain access information, though it is unknown if the attack was associated with the Chinese government.

Those in charge of the electrical grid, however, told the Journal that they are prepared for attacks, have backup to restore power quickly should an attack occur, and already face regular attacks which they are able to deflect.

But Alexander isn’t concerned about tensioned governments acting on their own behalf, so much as “leaking” knowledge to local cyber criminal groups.

“A near-peer competitor [country] could give cyber malware capability to some fringe group,” Alexander said, according to the Journal. “Some hacker, next thing you know, could be into our electrical grid. We have to get after this.”

We have reached out to the NSA and will update the post upon hearing back.

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Keith Alexander warns us of a false flag? Oh really?
You mean this Keith Alexander...

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Cybersecurity Discussion with General Keith B. Alexander,
Director of the NSA, Commander of U.S. Cyber Command
http://csis.org/event/cybersecurity-discussion-general-keith-b-alexander-director-national-security-agency

The head of "US Cybercommand", Keith Alexander, has obviously failed to prevent the next attack by a group of hackers... he should resign immediately.  By his own admission, throwing billions of dollars his way in order to "protect" us from 'cyberterrorism' has not been at all effective.   In the article above, he explains that a group of hackers (Anonymous) is going to shut down the electrical grid in the US at some point in 2012. And he's helpless to stop it. Wow.

We should be scared. That's his point: be afraid.

But let's look at Keith Alexander's history with regard to cyber terrorism, and his involvement with PTech and the 911 false flag.
Makes you wonder who "Anonymous" is working for... another convenient foe to create chaos from which only Keith Alexander and his globalist minions can save us. Shut down the internet!!! Be afraid!! (False flag coming).

Absolute proof CSIS is planning the next 9/11 attacks to usher in new government
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=191186.0

[Ambriel]

I can't speak for the collective as a whole, but it's doubtful they would do something like that.

I wouldn't.

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That's an interesting story...it works to cover a few bases.

Michio Kaku: Massive solar flare in the years 2012/2013 could throw us back 100 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPdqr2v1rTQ

Matthew Stein and Alex were discussing this yesterday.  Stein and Kaku make it sound very likely that there will be some failures due to the increased solar activity.  If the establishment is also convinced of this they are clearly putting this "Anonymous" story into the public awareness so that they can use it later.  What I find suspicious in Kaku's interview(above link), is that this pole shift in the sun happens "every eleven years".  2001?  1990?

Clearly the "cyber agenda" is planning on getting control from anything that can be made to look like it was caused by hackers.

It also covers up the fact that our infrastructure is actually weak...only superhuman, villainous hackers could cause it to fail.  And, this article certainly makes it sound like the pentagon and "Anonymous" aren't connected.  Anonymous is completely corrupted...and designed to be easily infiltrated.  The members have probably never met in person.  The pentagon has hackers on the payroll, and they can quite easily claim to "Anonymous".  It's my personal belief that the hacking of that "Cyber Defense Contractor" was a false flag, something to lend heavy "street credit" to the shadowy hacker group with no name...and anything blamed on them in the near future will also serve that purpose.

Am I the only one that thinks this might just be the cover for the inevitable blackouts that will occur from the reduction in coal power?  I find the "solar" story to be just a bit fishy.  It's not like the sun sends out a pulse every time the poles flip...it happens every eleven years.  Big events don't seem to have occurred  on any regular schedule either...at least not in a fashion where one could say it was definitely going to happen in a certain year.  At best, Kaku is playing a game of odds when he says this year could be a big event.

Just some thoughts I had while reading your post...

[Satyagraha]

I can't speak for the collective as a whole, but it's doubtful they would do something like that.

I wouldn't.

Are you sure you know who the 'collective' is?

Top 25% of world's hackers are under FBI control
The FBI and US secret service have used the threat of prison to create an army of cyber terrorists to control all cyber crime globally
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/06/us-hackers-fbi-informer
Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Monday 6 June 2011 16.12 BST

A quarter of hackers in the US have been recruited by federal authorities, according to Eric Corley, publisher of the hacker quarterly, 2600. Photograph: Getty Images The underground world of computer hackers has been so thoroughly infiltrated in the US by the FBI and secret service that it is now riddled with paranoia and mistrust, with an estimated one in four hackers secretly informing on their peers, a Guardian investigation has established. Cyber policing units have had such success in forcing online criminals to co-operate with their investigations through the threat of long prison sentences that they have managed to create an army of informants deep inside the hacking community. In some cases, popular illegal forums used by cyber criminals as marketplaces for stolen identities and credit card numbers have been run by hacker turncoats acting as FBI moles. In others, undercover FBI agents posing as "carders" – hackers specialising in ID theft – have themselves taken over the management of crime forums, using the intelligence gathered to put dozens of people behind bars.

So ubiquitous has the FBI informant network become that Eric Corley, who publishes the hacker quarterly, 2600, has estimated that 25% of hackers in the US may have been recruited by the federal authorities to be their eyes and ears. "Owing to the harsh penalties involved and the relative inexperience with the law that many hackers have, they are rather susceptible to intimidation," Corley told the Guardian. "It makes for very tense relationships," said John Young, who runs Cryptome, a website depository for secret documents along the lines of WikiLeaks. "There are dozens and dozens of hackers who have been shopped by people they thought they trusted." The best-known example of the phenomenon is Adrian Lamo, a convicted hacker who turned informant on Bradley Manning, who is suspected of passing secret documents to WikiLeaks. Manning had entered into a prolonged instant messaging conversation with Lamo, whom he trusted and asked for advice. Lamo repaid that trust by promptly handing over the 23-year-old intelligence specialist to the military authorities. Manning has now been in custody for more than a year. For acting as he did, Lamo has earned himself the sobriquet of Judas and the "world's most hated hacker", though he has insisted that he acted out of concern for those he believed could be harmed or even killed by the WikiLeaks publication of thousands of US diplomatic cables. "Obviously it's been much worse for him but it's certainly been no picnic for me," Lamo has said. "He followed his conscience, and I followed mine."

The latest challenge for the FBI in terms of domestic US breaches are the anarchistic co-operatives of "hacktivists" that have launched several high-profile cyber-attacks in recent months designed to make a statement. In the most recent case a group calling itself Lulz Security launched an audacious raid on the FBI's own linked organisation InfraGard. The raid, which was a blatant two fingers up at the agency, was said to have been a response to news that the Pentagon was poised to declare foreign cyber-attacks an act of war. Lulz Security shares qualities with the hacktivist group Anonymous that has launched attacks against companies including Visa and MasterCard as a protest against their decision to block donations to WikiLeaks. While Lulz Security is so recent a phenomenon that the FBI has yet to get a handle on it, Anonymous is already under pressure from the agency. There were raids on 40 addresses in the US and five in the UK in January, and a grand jury has been hearing evidence against the group in California at the start of a possible federal prosecution. Kevin Poulsen, senior editor at Wired magazine, believes the collective is classically vulnerable to infiltration and disruption. "We have already begun to see Anonymous members attack each other and out each other's IP addresses. That's the first step towards being susceptible to the FBI." Barrett Brown, who has acted as a spokesman for the otherwise secretive Anonymous, says it is fully aware of the FBI's interest. "The FBI are always there. They are always watching, always in the chatrooms. You don't know who is an informant and who isn't, and to that extent you are vulnerable."

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Morris' comments about the Girl Scouts came in a letter he sent to House Republicans on Saturday that said he had conducted some research on the Internet and discovered that the scouts are a "tactical arm" of Planned Parenthood.

http://news.yahoo.com/indiana-lawmaker-says-girl-scouts-promote-abortion-150745801.html

Indiana lawmaker says Girl Scouts promote abortion
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=228838.msg1343996#msg1343996


I see several tie-in themes here, not the least of which is that the internet is filled with disinfo(contradicting what Adam Kokesh had to say on Infowars Nightly News) and needs some regulating...if for no other reason than to prevent ignorant Christians from becoming more ignorant.  Planned Parenthood is being pretty tightly defended by the corporate media lately, and in this particular case the story serves to "re-affirm" their traditional position as the ultimate authority on truth...while demonizing "internet researchers".  Internet Researcher is code for Conspiracy Theorist.

[Ambriel]

I have spoken about Anonymous a few times on here, and YES, I do know quite a few members,.  I also run in those circles and am a member of a clan and have been for over a decade.

I am also privy to private IRC channels and other forums that I am a member of within the "collective", and I speak with members of various clans regularly.

IF the grid gets hit.  It won't be by the members of any of the clans that I speak to.  remember that Anonymous is made up of members of many clans just as wikileaks is also.

Remember that some of the info that wikileaks receives is from hacktavists.

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Some of it looks like it comes from inside the government.

Well, I hope that "Anonymous" realizes that they are Scapegoat #1 if the grid does go down.

Looks like they are already being set up for that, whether it is a false flag, lack of output or the solar thing.

And, I'm sure they realize this, but someone claiming to be "Anonymous" can give the government a perfect excuse to crack down.

I like the concept of "hacktivists" and I think they can do a lot of good, but they might want to consider a public code of conduct.  And, they may be required to dole out "punishment" to those who abuse that code.